In response to concerns from many Americans that radiation levels were too high in milk, the EPA announced it would be boosting radiation monitoring across the nation in order to ensure that the health and

Yesterday, in a tirade spurred by the strange, continued praise of News Corps snake-oily 'carbon neutral' efforts, I argued that Fox News has done more than any other media outlet in the world to prevent

It's on -- the bevy of amendments aimed at dismantling the Clean Air Act and stripping the EPA's ability to protect the public from polluters are being taken up in the Senate today. For more information on each of these specific efforts, see the NRDC.

Above, you will find a very reasonable conservative politician discussing climate policy. I'm posting this video to invite you all on a nostalgic journey back to the halcyon days of the American climate debate in politics -- way back in 2008. Way back

And by dissidents, I mean scientists who express beliefs contrary to what some politicians find convenient. You may have heard that Republicans have issued a massive Freedom of Information request to pore through the esteemed historian William Cronon's

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I was just thinking a bit about the GOP's unanimous vote in the House Energy Committee to deny the existence of climate change, and it occurred to me that there's probably a good explanation for

The GOP is In the process of attempting to pass legislation that would overrule the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health. Its aim is to protect corporate interests by preventing the EPA from cracking

Oh, politicians. They say the darnedest things. Now, I'd never accuse any congressman of bending the truth myself -- I'm just a trusting kind of guy -- but when a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan fact-checking

Aaand for our dose of Friday afternoon snark, we turn to a source where we might least expect biting sarcasm: from a sitting US Congressman. Yes, in response to the GOP's headlong legislative assault on science itself -- an effort to overturn a

"All that seems to matter is what Koch Industries think."
Them's the key takeaways from a series of remarks given by Representative Henry Waxman, one of the chief architects of the climate bill that passed the House nearly two years ago (remember that

You may have heard something about the huge push in Congress to overturn or weaken some of our nation's central environmental laws. Politicians want to pull back the scope of the Clean Air & Water Acts to allow polluters to skirt expensive upgrades to

When the GOP first released its budget outline a few weeks back, I noted the significant cuts it would make to the EPA -- cuts to the tune of 30% of its entire budget. It was an astonishing sum, a number intended to double

... And cost an estimated $65 billion to implement. Do the math. Because we live in crazy times, the body charged with the task of ensuring Americans breathe clean air and drink clean water is under a heavily politicized

Yesterday I reported that, in a political nose-thumbing to Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, the GOP had ditched the biodegradable food packaging that they'd used for four years in the House cafeteria -- and were bringing back old school, trashy